Wash-board



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J. Wf WILLIAMS 8?; I. H. EDDY.

WASH BOARD.

No. 335,868. I Patented Feb. 9, 1886.

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.e'PECIPICATION forming part oi Letters Patent No. 335,868, dated February 9, 18 86.

Application filed January 2, 1885.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, J AMES W. WrLLIAMs and IRVINE H. EDDY, citizens of the United States, residing at Louisville, in the countyof Jefferson and State of Kentucky, have invented new and useful Improvements inVVash-Boards, of which the following is a specification.

In an application for apatent filed by James \V. \Villiams September 2, 1884, Serial No. 142,062, there is described and claimed a washboard provided on its rubbing-surface with openings or perforations describing a space occupied by a cake of soap, in combination with a follower device adapted to press said cake of soap up against said perforated surface from the rear for the purpose of holding the soap so as to be exposed to the rubbing action of the wet clothes to make the suds, avoid the holding of the soap, and to economize it.

The present improvement is to effect the same object with the advantage of providing a removable box for the soap, so that it may be set and. held in an opening in the board and expose the soap through the barred or perforated open side of the box on about the same plane with the rubbing-surface, whereby the box may be easily removed and opened to receive another cake of soap and replaced in its seat in the board. The removable soap-box is also adapted for use with a barred slide for the convenient replenishing of the soap, and the bottom of the box has holes to let out the water, and thus prevent the too rapid softening of the soap.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents an elevation of the rubbing-surface of a wash-board having the improvement applied thereto; Fig. 2, a section lengthwise ofthe board; Fig. 3, a cross-section o taken through the soap box; Fig. 4, a perspective view of the soap-box, and Fig. 5 a similar view, the barred slide being shown as partially removed.

The wash-board may be made like those in 5 use, and particularly those having a board part at the top within which to cut an opening just above the top of the zinc rubbing'surface. We provide a box, a, suitable for holding a cake of soap of standard size, open at one side and surrounded at said open side with a flange, b, by which it is seated in the opening in the board. This flange also serves to receive the Serial No. 151,784. (No modelJ perforated or barred slide 0, which forms a cover for the box and confines the cake of soap therein. The box is provided with a follower, e, seated upon a spring, 45, and the cake of soap a, resting upon the follower, is pressed up against the perforated or barred cover in such manner that the soap will come sufficiently in contact with the wetted clothes in the process of rubbing to make suds. The body part of the box has a number of-holes, u, to let out the water, and thus prevent the too rapid softening of the soap.

The box made and described is complete for application to the board by cutting asuitable opening in the top part within which to seat the box, so that its open-barred cover will be on a level with the rubbing-surface.

The box may be provided with a spring or springs, or a catch on one or both sides, to bind or hold it in place; but, if set tightly in the opening, it will not need to be fastened upon its seat.

The box is made removable from the board for convenience in replenishing the soap, and the box may be changed from one side of the board to the other to suit a double wash-board.

We may form the open -barred cover by soldering wires or rods 1) across the opening in the cover, and the bars 22 may be cast with the slide, and the flange b may have turned-up lips for holding the slide instead of forming thelatter with the turnedunder lips, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5.

WVe clain1--- 1. A wash-board having an opening in its upper part, in combination with a box seated therein having a removable open-barred slide or cover, and containing a spring follower adapted to hold a cake of soap against the open barred face of said cover for contact with the wet clothes, substantially as herein set forth.

2. The combination,with a wash-board having an opening in its upper part, of a removable flanged box seated in said opening, having a removable openbarred slide or cover for inclosing a cake of soap upon a follower contained within said box, substantially as herein set forth, for the purpose specified.

3. A soap containing box having a grated or barred cover describing the space occupied by the contained soap, a spring-follower, and aseat or flange by which said box is removably seated in an opening provided in the upper In testimony whereof we have hereunto set part of a wash-board, substantially as herein our hands in the presence of two subscribing set forth. witnesses.

4. A wash-board having an opening at or 5 near its top and an open-top soap-retaining JAMES W. WILLIAMS.

box seated therein containing a follower and IRVINE H. EDDY.

a spring for maintaining the soap in position i at the open top of said box on a plane with the Witnesses: rubbing-surface of the board, substantially as JOHN P. SAOKSTEDER, Y 10 described, for the purpose specified. GEO. E. PARKER. 

